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    "id": 31567,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Chairperson, I think we are all talking about the same thing, but some Members are missing the point. The freedom of association is there and we must really stand for it. However, what is a political party? The Constitution does not define it and this proposed Bill, does not define it. However, in the current Political Parties Act, it is an association of like-minded people for purposes of capturing political power. If such an association then comes together in an alliance before the elections, they have lost the will to capture political power long before elections. The place of such people, because they are entitled to their view under the Constitution, is to merge. That is what mergers are for. If, before the elections, they feel that they are so much the same, then they merge to become one formidable unit to go to elections. Parties that want to survive go to the elections as they are and then after elections, if the party that has a majority does not have an absolute majority, it then courts the other parties, for a temporary union which is not a merger. We are mistaking the two processes. The freedom of association is protected in mergers before the elections, but after elections, you can have the coalition."
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